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And how many of them have you played?

And how many of them have you completed?

And how many of them have you enjoyed?

Those would be the real determinants to whether or not you received value for your money, and if so, how much.

I prefer don't look total spend xD

I prefer to think i've bought games i liked it and support developers, played (not finished) only about 5% of them.

Not gonna go through my purchase history to filter gifts and freebies and bundled games out of my total to come back with a number - even less so a total spend.

lol. Who cares? Why did you go through all that trouble to draw attention to yourself?

$1518.04 CAD for 366 games in total, including free.

$4.15 CAD/game at an average of 122 games/year.

That averages out to about 99 cents per game, but it's completely irrelevant without context.

Some games are an absolute steal when given away for free, and others are highway robbery when paid for at full price (or even at a sale).

And as ARD said: how many of those have you actually PLAYED and ENJOYED? I've turned down a ton of free GOG games because I looked at them and said: "This is not a game I would enjoy, or even want to try." I didn't see any point in claiming those games, other than padding my game library on the off chance that my gaming preferences might take a radical change.

Perhaps you really do intend to play every game in your library... but have you? Over 1,000 games over 12 years (about 83 games per year) is quite a feat. I'm totally spot on with your other points, but I take a slight exception on this one. Do we really have to complete a game to get our full value out of it? (EDIT: Correcting my post to acknowledge that you didn't say anything about getting the full value from a game... but I still took the implication to be something along the lines of "getting your money's worth".) For example: I know a lot of people who have played, but never finished, Baldur's Gate 2 and consider it one of their favorite RPGs of all time.

Absolutely, there's no need to finish a game to get your money's worth. Trying to complete a game if you don't enjoy early or mid, or even lategame sections is just falling prey to sunken cost fallacy. Many games have cool settings, novel gameplay, unique physics, etc., but not all of it is going to be good so some games are better classified as 'play/rent it' rather than 'finish' or 'complete it'. GTA, Skyrim, Sims, city builders, other sandbox games fall under this category.

Over $600 in a two year period. No regrets.

The raw $ per how many games is interesting too when they can be assumed to be minimally decent quality, although less so lately now that curation standards are lower (and more demos and "goodie packs" are around, which is great but makes it hard to figure out the true number of games). I mostly agree, though, I technically have more games on Itch than GOG just from a couple of big bundles but the value of my GOG collection is much higher (some that aren't here are good though even if fairly simple, like Lizzi Crossing, Cardinal Chains, and Rainy Season).

I'm fairly sure I've played at least 75% of my fairly large GOG collection, probably more than that (I am disabled so I have more time than most). I'm guessing 500ish GOG games that I've played. I have 64 on my favorites list, maybe 100 counting the ones that didn't quite make it or that I missed but should be on the list. Maybe another 100-150 that I don't mind having played. Leaving about half that in retrospect I at least partially regret purchasing (including some that I instanoped, particularly before the refund era), although some of those are bundled games where I liked at least one in the bundle.

I spent more money on fewer games than natewrench but still think it is a quite good value overall. Exactly half of my tagged favorites I spent less than $5 on (counting any DLC and not counting one that I got on giveaway) and many of the others have gone below $5 since I purchased them (Falcom games take a long time get discounted that much but most of the rest will get there before too long I suspect).

I haven't played many of the most expensive games that I purchased since they are later Trails games and I was waiting for Zero/Azure (which I should finally get to last few days of this year or early next year). I'm willing to pay more to support developers that have reliable quality (not many of those :( ) and I get gift copies of many of my favorite games (particularly the less expensive ones). I also spend more when there is a demo I like. At least now that my income is stable, which was not always the case. Still a good idea to think about this stuff now and then even if the details are all very personal.

I bought games on Steam and regretted it.

I buy games on GOG and haven't regretted it yet.

With 2500 games, some of them full price, I whould be way over 10k.

It's better not to look too close.

I'm not into e-peen comparisons, so let's just say: mine is bigger than yours. ;)

On a more serious note: I once started to add up my expenses (both: here and on Steam), and the number I ended up with, had me say out loud: "holy fuck!"

No - I don't remember the number, and I also don't want to remember the number.
And yes - it was really that high a number.

Far too high for something, which is really just digital zeros and ones in the end.

Dunno. At least four digit with 500€ alone for Stardew Valley as I bought during Covid every month a copy of this game so that people stay home and stay safe with digital gardening.